[OOC] Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

[Antarctic Termite]

@Muttonhawk bah, Eldrazi is child's play. We've already been there.

Hider

[Muttonhawk]

@Muttonhawk bah, Eldrazi is child's play. We've already been there.

Hider

@Antarctic Termite

I am pleased that this has been kept.

[Oraculum]

Keeping to tradition, another post precedes another two-week disappearance.

I swear this isn't an attempt to escape the exponentially growing creation sheet debt.

[Muttonhawk]

Another Yorum update. I have finally finished an outline for the post. 8 full scenes, each delimited by other mini-scenes. A span of nine years told. Many changes and racing developments.

...This is going to take a while. I might have to adopt the patented CyKhollab release scheduling system.

[Cyclone]

@Muttonhawk

You may recall the Termite collab I posted about a month ago where the djinni civil war sparked off, Barak's civilization was wiped off the map, some unnamed region was devastated by djinn fighting, and a gigantic horde of firedjinn were left leaderless and began rampaging across the countryside.

From a PM conversation between BBeast and I:

The horde of fire elementals is somewhere near the Ironhearts. I imagined Barak's civilization (and the cataclysmic battle) to be on the eastern side of the Ironhearts somewhere north of Amestria's ruins and south of Loralom, so barring anything else already being canonized there and in conflict with this, let's say that the rampaging firedjinn are over there.
...
Edit edit: Boreas is also at large; you may recall him as an icy djinni lord that's Scion of the Northern Wind, or as the guy who killed Thermaron. He's down really far south and is fighting with both sides of the civil war. Feel free to do something with him, too; his cruelty is already apparent even from his brief appearance, but I had also been meant to canonize his disdain for mortals through some mention of his interaction with the Treeminds and other mortals in the far north. Unfortunately that never came to pass (or hasn't yet; Kho and I still may still do something with Boreas).

I'm bringing this up now mostly to ask if that's a reasonable spot to say this happened, but also because it might somehow be relevant to your upcoming Loralom superpost (though by no means feel obligated to go back and reference this stuff just to appease me; most of it would have happened outside of Loralom, though they may have observed the movements of all these armies of djinn).

[Muttonhawk]

@Cyclone Most of that seems fairly clear of Loralom and the Yorum area in general, so I'm cool with that. Could you give be a rough year estimate post-realta that the firedjinn would have started spazzing around?

Also, there's not really much south of Loralom except ocean. It's kind-of tucked into the north-north-east corner of the Metatic...

Edit: As for Boreas, the Yorumite hain tend not to go too far north anyway. I had originally kept a fuzzy contrivance that there's just not any arable or fishable land that far north and into the polar Jungle Tree, but it might also be the case that they don't want to trespass on Boreas' neighbourhood.

[Cyclone]

Ah, I had thought Yorum was on the northwestern coast. They'll be almost entirely clear of any disaster, then.

This stuff is happening within 1-2 years of Ventus' death. When did we decide that was? 5PR?

[Muttonhawk]

Ah, I had thought Yorum was on the northwestern coast. They'll be almost entirely clear of any disaster, then.

This stuff is happening within 1-2 years of Ventus' death. When did we decide that was? 5PR?

@Cyclone

I have the fall of the citadel down as circa 5 PR on my timeline, so I would say it's a safe assumption.

[Kho]

...This is going to take a while. I might have to adopt the patented CyKhollab release scheduling system.

@Muttonhawk

Necessity is the mother of innovation. And Divinus has been very innovative - I'm rather proud to say that we hold the rights to the brilliant Good Summaritan system. If the CyKhollab Release Scheduling System is adopted more widely, we'll call that another Divinusian innovation.

Divinus; Innovating since 2013 - All for the greater good of mankind.

[Kho]

An Essay on the Neurobiology of Writing

An Essay on the Psychology of Writing

[Slime]

An Essay Writing on the Neurobiology of Writing

An Essay on the Psychology of Writing

@Kho

You guys, this horse can understand us!

[Kho]

@Slime

'On Horses' and Other Essays

[Kho]

@Antarctic Termite Was reading some German poet and came across this. It's quote clear that this guy saw into the mind of Jvan o.o

'...beauty's nothing
but the start of terror we can hardly bear,
and we adore it because of the serene scorn
it could kill us with.'

Edit: uh. neigh and all that stuff, of khorse

[Antarctic Termite]

Question while I procrastinate catching up on any of these posts I have yet to read: does anyone here know any local myths that take place in the area where you live or lived?

I've been reading just a little indigenous lore lately. One of the main stories of the Noongar people is involved in how a lake in my district got its name.

quick story, so I don't forget

There was once a woman spirit named Junda, a giant, who was of evil repute. She wandered the land collecting child spirits, hiding them in her long, thick white hair for safekeeping as she roamed. The elders of the land were angered by her mischief, and so they took on the shape of koorlbardi, the Australian magpie, and pursued her. They chased her far across the land and pulled many little spirits from her hair as she ran. On landing, they became stone outcrops still seen today.

Eventually, Junda reached a high stone far inland, and from it she leapt into the sky, where the koorlbardi could not reach. There she stays, to this day, knowing that the elders will pursue her again if she returns to the earth. Her white hair forms the Milky Way, and the child spirits still kept therein are bright stars. The Hyades constellation is her encampment, and the red star Aldebaran her fire. She still looks down wistfully on the land from which she was exiled.

On a clear night, as she looks down, you can see her hair reflected in the waters of a big lake in the north. So the lake and region are called 'Joondalup', 'shining place', and retains the name to this day.

...or so the story goes! Sources are a little scarce.

[Slime]

@Antarctic Termite

Boy, Brazil has some crazy folklore tales. I'll list a few here.

Boitatá: a snake made of fire that protects nature and the animals from deforestation.

Pink River Dolphin: a river dolphin that disguises himself as a handsome man and seduces single women and impregnates them. The next morning they turn back into a dolphin and flee back to the river.

Dry Corpse: men that in life were so hateful that even God, the Devil and the ground where they're buried rejected them, forcing them to live on and haunt travelers.

They're very summarized since I myself never looked into folklore very deeply. Tbh I didn't know about that dry corpse one. Pretty grim imo.

[Kho]

Woah, speaking of folk tales. I've recently been raiding my local library for all the folklore and fairy tale books I can find. I've got like, twenty sitting here, their siren call inviting me to part their lascivious lips and- uh, pages. I said pages...

_{the things i do not to write my essays o.o}

[Double Capybara]

Woah, speaking of folk tales. I've recently been raiding my local library for all the folklore and fairy tale books I can find. I've got like, twenty sitting here, their siren call inviting me to part their lascivious lips and- uh, pages. I said pages...

_{the things i do not to write my essays o.o}

@Kho

I had this phase around the time in which I got into Divinus, was one the of the reason why I had interest in the RP. I think I mentioned or referenced in Divinus one tale from my favorite of the books I had read on that period. Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia.

This is, by the way, one of my favorite folktales of all time.

[Cyclone]

You guys might dig this one game called Dominions. It's a (pretty insanely) complex, turn-based strategy game where you're a quasi-god with a bunch of mortal worshipers and you try to cast aside all your rivals and ascend to become the head honcho and supreme god.

I've played it and its predecessors for years and it's always reminded me of Divinus. What's more is that it has a lot of lore, most of which is based on mythology. Pretty interesting take on fantasy when the Not-Romans fall and turn into an empire of undead controlled by ghastly necromancer priests, the Not-Irish are enslaved by the one-eyed, twisted Fomorians from Celtic mythos, and Not-Egypt is an ancient empire of lizard people.

[Double Capybara]

It's a (pretty insanely) complex, turn-based strategy game where you're a quasi-god with a bunch of mortal worshipers and you try to cast aside all your rivals and ascend to become the head honcho and supreme god.

@Cyclone

Yeah, it was pretty damn complex when I tried playing it, I couldn't make it too far and ended up refunding on steam.

[Cyclone]

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Yeah, it was pretty damn complex when I tried playing it, I couldn't make it too far and ended up refunding on steam.

@Double Capybara

Did you read the 300+ page manual?

It really isn't for everybody, but I wish Steam allowed more than three hours before you could refund, though. Games like that take time to figure out.